Well..... I figured I should do some sort food item in celebration of the Superbowl. I only watch football because my husband loves it. He would watch football 24/7 if I would let him (but I won't let him). My favorite part about the Superbowl is the food and the commercials. I always look forward to the new Budweiser commercial. This year's did not disappoint! A puppy and a horse... wow. Nice move, Budweiser! So anyway, my other favorite part: the food! I think one year I tried to make all football-shaped things. Never. Again. One of my very ambitious friends even made blue deviled eggs (the eggs were bright blue!) with orange filling. She even used the pin from the Deviled Egg blog post. And it worked for her too. Success! Go check that one out too for future Superbowl (or any!) get-together. Okay, so for this post, I found these cute little gems on Pinterest...
THE PIN: These were so cute I couldn't resist. First of all, I love 7-layer taco dip. SO good! But I always want to keep dipping the same chip into the dip bowl and apparently that's frowned upon. The solution: Individual 7-Layer Taco Dips! Genius. Just... genius. I promised to make these for my next girl's night, but my girls have all been pretty busy lately, so I made them for the Superbowl instead. Don't worry, girls... the offer still stands!
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| Pic from http://www.the-girl-who-ate-everything.com/ |
WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
1 can of refried beans (the small one - 16 oz). (Confession: I hate refried beans so I always get black beans and drop them in a sauce pan on medium for like 5 minutes while I mush them up. So much better!)
1 packet of taco seasoning (make your own and use 1/4 c. - I will definitely blog about this later!)
1 cup of guacamole (I made my own but you can use the store-bought kind too)
1 tub of sour cream (the small one again - 8 oz)
1 cup of chunky salsa or pico de gallo (I couldn't decide so I mixed store-bought salsa w/ pico de gallo - WAY better!)
1 cup of cheese - whatever kind you like best
2 tomatoes, diced up
1 bunch of green onions, sliced (I left this out because I forgot to buy some at the store... Que será, será!)
1 can of sliced olives (the small one again... is there a broken record somewhere? - I think it's about 2 oz.)
8 - 9-ounce plastic tumblers
Tortilla chips - lots of them (but make sure they're the sturdy kind!)
So... before I say ANYTHING. These too For...ev...er (flashback to The Sandlot). I might be exaggerating, especially since I had a baby hanging off my hip and a kid hanging on each leg, yelling at the top of their tiny lungs. And I did my own refried beans so they weren't the gross ones that I hate (but that didn't really take that long). But normal 7-layer dip that you make in a big batch is pretty quick. I thought these would be too, but trying to shove all the stuff down into the bottom of the cups was a little more time consuming than one might think. That being said, they were pretty darn easy!
I had to buy a lot of the things at the store. I was feeling lazy, so I bought pre-shredded cheese. I did, however, make my own guac. Just call me Super Mom. If you're already at the store though, for goodness sake make sure you have chips. It would be a real crime if you made these and then had to go back to the store to buy chips. Not like I did that... (I did that).
Okay... so you mix the beans and taco seasoning. Spread that on the bottom of the cup. Don't smear it on the sides! Then you spread the guac on top of the beans. Easy peasy. Sour cream: you guessed it. Spread it on. Salsa next. 4th layer down! Cheese - sprinkle it on. Tomatoes sprinkle those too. I didn't do the onions, but those come next. Then the olives. I'm no math whiz, but I believe that actually makes eight layers, not seven. I think they counted the green onions and olives as one layer. It's clearly not! Don't sell yourself short. It is so 8 layers! Here are our 7-layer end product (remember... ours were sans green onions). Not bad!
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| Double dipping just became my new last name! |
COST: $$ Pretty cheap. There were just so many ingredients! And one of them was avocados, which are so expensive now! If I'd had to buy everything for this (I did have some things in my pantry) I probably would have spent about $10-$12 (that's a ballpark... I really have no idea).
DO-ABILITY: (I don't like the "plus signs" so until I find a better system...) these were easy. Not REALLY easy, but easy enough for my kids to help. I say not REALLY easy, because the spreading without smearing everything all over the side of the cup was kind of tricky. You can just wipe it clean with a wet paper towel though. So there's that...
THE SKINNY: Well these were pretty flippin' great. And what I like most about them, is you could totally make them to order for individual people For example my little sis who can't have dairy... no sour cream or cheese in hers. When I had made normal 7-layer dip, she would have had to pick around the sour cream and cheese. And then there's my daughters who won't eat tomatoes (but they love pizza... anyone like to explain that one?)... so no tomatoes on the ones the small humans are eating. Another thing if you make these is make sure you buy the good, thick chips or else you'll end up with a bonus layer of broken chips.
THE GOOD: Once you cut everything up, it's SO easy for the small people to help! My 6-year old really liked spreading the first four layers on and my 4-year old was a mixing queen! And they were ACTUALLY helping (not just "helping"). Individual serving sizes so you can double dip to your hearts content... and I did! And you can tailor them to the needs of your family's high-maintenance diet (love you, sis!).
THE BAD: So many ingredients. I like things that are 5 ingredients or less. However... of things with more than 5 ingredients, these are at the top of my list! But I still mark that as a "Con". They also take a long time with all the spreading. Make sure you have sturdy chips! Mine kept breaking on the beans layer. Damn those beans... they cause so many problems!
PIN OR BUST?: I'd totally pin it! They're so customize-able, which my family always appreciates. And they're so stinking cute! I like things that are smaller versions of the normal one, so naturally I gravitated to these. Plus, you can put a chip in the top and make them look even more adorable! Ha!
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| This overachiever is posing on top of the sour cream... with a chip. Brown noser! |
Happy Pinning!
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